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type: "Bill"
title: "Electronic credentials; creates standards for DMV in issuing, reviewing, etc., report."
description: "Creates standards for the Department of Motor Vehicles in issuing, reviewing, and displaying electronic credentials. The Electronic Credentials Act establishes fees for access to electronic credentials and standards for a verification system that would allow users to verify the authenticity of electronic credentials."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2229"
citation: "Virginia HB 2229 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Computer Services and Uses", "Motor Vehicles", "Study Commissions", "Committees and Reports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ronald A. Villanueva"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2017-01-11"
last_action: "2017-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a101c806-0997-41b9-98c5-24c56aaf9b1a"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2229"
source_hash: "8cef5b4b89fbb131560786ecbd23ab407238f44bf975abc33238fbf76414f2eb"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia HB 2229 (2017) — Electronic credentials; creates standards for DMV in issuing, reviewing, etc., report.
Creates standards for the Department of Motor Vehicles in issuing, reviewing, and displaying electronic credentials. The Electronic Credentials Act establishes fees for access to electronic credentials and standards for a verification system that would allow users to verify the authenticity of electronic credentials.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0697)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0697)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2229ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2229ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102057D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2229)
4. **House: Printed as engrossed 17102057D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2229E)
## Votes
- Reported from Finance — **130** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation with amendment — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **970** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **60** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation — **130** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Ronald A. Villanueva — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102057D `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-17** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #4 `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-27** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-30** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-01-30** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2017-01-30** Engrossed by House as amended HB2229E
- **2017-01-30** Printed as engrossed 17102057D-E
- **2017-01-31** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-01** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-14** Rereferred to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-24** Enrolled
- **2017-02-24** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-24** Signed by President
- **2017-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
- **2017-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 697 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a101c806-0997-41b9-98c5-24c56aaf9b1a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).